The 1918 California gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1918. Incumbent governor William Stephens was re-elected over independent Theodore Arlington Bell. The 1918 election is notable for i
William Dennison Stephens portrait circa 1917
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Theodore Arlington Bell
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Theodore Arlington Bell was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a Democratic congressman from California from 1903 to 1905.
1918 California gubernatorial election
…The 1918 California gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1918. Incumbent governor William Stephens was re-elected over independent Theodore Arlington Bell. The 1918 election is notable for its invocation of the Hawson amendment, a law designed to prevent a candidate from winning the nomination of another…
San Francisco Chronicle illustration of Bell as District Attorney, 1895
Caricature of Bell, 1912